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Description of  Don't Trust Your Gut: Using Data to Get What You Really Want in Life

"Seth Stephens-Davidowitz is more than a data scientist. He is a prophet for how to use the data revolution to reimagine your life. Dont Trust Your Gut is a tour de forcean intoxicating blend of analysis, humor, and humanity. Daniel H. Pink, #1 New York Times bestselling author of When, Drive, and To Sell Is Human Big decisions are hard. We consult friends and family, make sense of confusing expert advice online, maybe we read a self-help book to guide us. In the end, we usually just do what feels right, pursuing high stakes self-improvementsuch as who we marry, how to date, where to live, what makes us happybased solely on what our gut instinct tells us. But what if our gut is wrong? Biased, unpredictable, and misinformed, our gut, it turns out, is not all that reliable. And data can prove this. Read more